guidelines
Balance over time

Australia’s co-production arrangements are intended to benefit the economies, industry personnel, film studios and laboratories of both partner countries.

To achieve this, Australia’s co-production arrangements require a balance over time of the financial and creative participation of partner countries.

It is recognised that there is likely to be some imbalance in the participation rates of co-producers from partner countries on particular projects. However, over time the participation of the partner countries should be close to equal. The competent authorities in each country monitor the contributions of each partner country under each arrangement – over many different productions – to ensure a balance over time.